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Title: Three Boys in the Wild North Land

Author: Egerton Ryerson Young

Illustrator: J.E. Laughlin

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21245]

Language: English

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Three Boys in the Wild North Land

By Egerton Ryerson Young
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THREE BOYS IN THE WILD NORTH LAND

BY EGERTON RYERSON YOUNG

CHAPTER ONE.

WELCOME TO SAGASTA-WEEKEE--MR. ROSS, THEIR HOST--THE THREE BOYS--FRANK,
ALEC, SAM--THE "PRINCE ARTHUR"--THE VOYAGE--THE ESQUIMAUX--ARRIVAL AT
YORK FACTORY.

"Welcome to this Wild North Land! welcome to our happy home in the Land
of the North Wind! Welcome, thrice welcome, all and each one of you!"

Thus excitedly and rapidly did Mr Ross address a trio of sunburnt,
happy boys, who, with all the assurance of a joyous welcome, had burst
in upon him in his comfortable, well-built home, or "hunting lodge," as
he preferred to call it, on the banks of the Nelson River. This cozy
but isolated home was situated some hundreds of miles up in the interior
of the country from York Factory, on the Hudson Bay.

Mr Ross had named his house "Sa-gas-ta-wee-kee," a beautiful Indian
word which literally means a house full of sunshine. Mr Ross had spent
many years as an official in the Hudson Bay Company's service, as had
his father before him. A few years before this, being possessed of
abundance of means, he had retired from active work in the great fur-
trading company. He had tried to settle down in an older, civilised
land, but had found it impossible to content himself away from those
regions where he had spent the best years of his life. His wife and
family were of the same mind, and so, after some years of travel in
various lands, they returned to this northern country where they had
spent so many happy years.

Every year or so Mr Ross with some members